As soon as the bite or sting occurs, split open a leaf and apply it directly to the bite area.

Arthritis

Dice up leaves and place pieces in a jar of water, refrigerate. Drink 4 Tablespoons per day and top up water in the jar as consumed. The drink can be bitter but it does go away over time. Some may find relief right away, many don’t find relief until a couple months later. Make a fresh jar of leaves as needed.

For aching joints and muscles, rub Aloe Vera on the skin, relief should be felt within a few minutes and can be repeated as necessary.

Age Skin Spots

Apply juice to the spots twice a day, spots will be reduced or completely removed after several months of treatment.

Acne

Give your skin a good cleansing morning and night. Apply juice directly from the leaf. Can also apply to pimples and other sores.

For removing old acne scars, apply a little juice morning and night until the scars are gone. This can take several months. If skin is dry, apply with a moisturizing cream.

Asthma

Boil leaves in a pan of water and breathe in the vapor.

Determining If You Are Allergic To It

Before applying any first aid treatments, find out if you have an allergy to it first. If you’re allergic to aloe vera, you may experience the results opposite to what you were hoping for. Here’s how you can quickly find out if you’re allergic to it:

Apply a small amount of juice on the inside of your arm or behind your ears. If a rash appears or you experience a stinging sensation within a few minutes, do not use for first aid.

Did You Know:

After removing a leaf to treat a burn or cut, you can refrigerate it and it will keep for 2 to 3 weeks.

It’s an astringent and may cause skin to dry. You can apply baby oil or other lubricant along with the aloe to help prevent dryness.

What leaf is best to use in first aid treatments? The lowest leaves (closest to the ground) should be used first. These are older and larger so they have more juice and greater potency.

Caution For Diabetics:

Drinking Aloe Vera juice might enable the pancreas to produce more of its own insulin. Before taking internally, diabetics should have their physician monitor their need for extra insulin since too much is dangerous.

What Readers Are Saying:

I don’t know about anyone else, but I am constantly getting little burns in my kitchen. You’d think I’d learn! What I HAVE learned is that in the event of these little burns, which can be surprisingly and annoyingly painful, smear some mustard on the burn. Either that or slice an onion and rub it on. Nasty, I know, but they both take the sting out really quick!

That’s the sap of the plant. It is commonly used as a digestion promoter and although it does stink can also aid in healing. If you’ll notice the sap quickly forms a “band-aid” for the plant and heals the plant. It does the same for us. I usually wipe the sap off, slice open the leaf and use the gel. The gel is bitter and has only a slight odor.

JO is absolutely correct. You should definitely use the inner leaf gel, the membrane of the leaf contains the aloin and there is some debate on the toxicity of this. There has been a withdrawal of some products that use aloin in recent years.

All the remedies mentioned here are perfect. I am already using aloe vera for these purposes since 20 years.There are even hundreds more in our tradition and I’ve experienced them many times and the results were always 90%.

I have brought back the juices of some aloe vera leaves. Can you please tell me what I can do with it (apart from burns). I thought maybe put it in my body lotion or face cream? What do you think and how long will it last for if I blend it in with creams?

I saw a Korean woman, while she was sitted in front of what she was selling in a store, massage her face with the gel or juice inside the aloe vera plant. She cuts a small portion of the leaf and squeezed it in her hand and put it all over her face. I asked what it is for and she said that she is using it as her face “moisturizing lotion”. I have been doing the same thing for years. I put it in my face everynight and it will feel like a mask that compress your face a little bit, like the mask that they use in the beauty parlor. When it’s dry, you can sleep with it and it won’t stain anything. When you take a shower in the morning, you will feel that your skin is so smooth like you just had a spa therapy in the parlor.

Aloe Vera plants are wonderful, my son crusched his right leg and had a very large open wound, the doctors and there ways weren’t doing so good, went to his grandmothers and used her plants to help heal his wound and it did, so much faster than what the doctors were doing and it healed without much scaring. It’s a wonder plant sent to us by God.

Every times when I washed my hair. It keep falling off. I went to see a doctor and was given some medicine to control my hair from falling. After 6 months still the same. So, I checked in the internet and found “ALOE VERA”. I applied “ALOE VERA” gel on my hair for 3 months. Now my hair starts growing.

I have acid problem, aloe vera is a natural antacid. How should I take the aloe vera gel inside the leaf? Should I swallow some of the gel as an antacid? How much should I take and how often a day until the acid is gone.

My son was bitten by a dog yesterday, well I figured if Aloe Vera was good for insect bites and poison ivy and among other things,,I was kind of curious if I could use Aloe Vera on his hand where the dog bit him

I woke this morning with my foot scorching hot. I have been treating my athlete’s foot with “Miracle of Aloe” but since I ran out I never made the time to purchase any. I was lying down for a while trying with every inch in my body to not cratch but it was easier said then done. Then I remembered the Aloe Vera plants in my room. I went over, took a piece off the end and applied it to my athlete’s foot…I couldn’t be more grateful for having those miraculous plants around. I can now get a few more hours of sleep without being absolutely miserable.

My wife used the gel inside the leaves on areas she received radiation on for her recent breast cancer treatment. She never received the burns usually experienced during treatment. The doctors were amazed at the condition of her skin. Cut thorns of sides with potatoe peeler, separated large leaves with sharp knive then scraped gel sheets out with bout knife. Left on breast for several hours. Warning use an old bra, aloe Vera stains.

Good evening, does anyone who can explain it to me…Why I got redness on my stretch marks after putting aloe vera leaves, I leave it on my skin for the rest of the day and this it the result, itchy and got redness skin on it. please tell me if just only a reaction of my skin or I have an allergy on it.

Sounds like you are allergic to Aloe Vera leaf or chemicals which might have been sprayed on the leaf.I am not a Doctor. But I do suffer with many allergies. I tried everything to get rid of stretch marks nothing worked. I didn’t try warm Olive Oil perhaps that might help, massage it all over stretch marks morning and evening. I hope it helps you.

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